Scalp Visiblity

Just to set my mind at ease about what a couple people in my life are concerned over, I have a question. How visible are most of everyone's roots in unprocessed hair compared to a platinum blonde lift?

I ask this because I'm being told my hair is thinning, but beyond my hair feeling light and airy from the full processing, I never noticed excessive falling out over the passed few months. I don't sweep or vacuum up more hair than normal. I haven't noticed any chemical burn behavior. And honestly, when my unprocessed hair has dealt with a dry scalp, I notice the sebum overproduction causes the same areas on my head to have a more visible, thus make that area look 'balding.' And my natural hair, when well oiled, causes a ponytail to make my hair look extremely flat. (Like anyone's I suppose).

While I feel that my hair is as it should be, and I feel that the concerned parties are seeing things because they're not really a fan of my current "hair crazy' moments, lol. But I like to keep a balanced mind, so I want to know if any of you notice a change in your scalp visibility. The only difference I've seen is the obvious difference in overall body. At worst, maybe I just need a bit of Olaplex to play it safe with my actual hair strands?

My only real regret is not using Colour B4 on my green, because I think it turned Blue Mayhem into diluted Navy Blue.

I don't notice my scalp being any more visible when my hair is coloured. It can look a bit pink if I have freshly done roots and it's toned white. I do notice a reduction in individual hair thickness, as in, it's less lustrous and if I pull my hair into a ponytail, the girth of the ponytail is a bit less when it's bleached than when it's natural.

People have given up telling me stuff about my hair, but I have had people comment that I'll make it fall out from dyeing it so much which is clearly not true.

Your hair doesn't look thin to me. Has it changed much since you started dyeing? You'll know if it's breakage if you find your regrowth has a lot of short "baby hairs" and short of chemical burns, dyeing won't cause it to fall out. If it was thinning, it would most likely be a hormonal or dietary issue.

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I've noticed the hair thickness goes down a tad, and feels wispy, but in my opinion and because I've paid freakishly close attention to my hair over the years, I don't notice anything different with my scalp's visibility. I've always had a very strong part when I part my hair in any direction. Since my hair's in a long bob, there's not a big change in my ponytail girth since it still looks more like a sparrow's tail, lol. My theory is that they just notice my scalp more because the color's lighter than Level 2.

But I've never had any extra breakage, so the general shedding follows that of healthy hair. I've always had a natural "halo" so there's really nothing out of the ordinary. I've noticed that this reflects kind of gold-black given the green undertones from the previous dye color, because the green has toned a lot of my strands to a navy blue, though there's an interesting blue-purple highlight at the right angle. But trying to explain color theory to those who don't understand it. I just have to smile and shrug, I suppose.

Heh, I did try that. Sadly there was pure denial that this was a remote possibility. "I've seen your hair thinning for 6 months." First, they were mixing the terms "thinning" with "hair loss." And I'm pretty sure I'd notice more than then 160 average that humans 'shed' being lost on my hair brush and floor. But... oh well.

I also think dark colors come into play. My hair was bright pink for the last 6 months. I didnt really notice my scalp. I dyed my hair violet over Xmas time and now I am seeing my scalp in the front of my hair when it is styled in certain ways. I starting kinda freaking because female pattern baldness is a thing in my family, but I really dont think it is that. I think it really has to do with the stark contrast between my very white scalp and my now very dark hair.
Edited to add: Most of the time I am seeing my scalp is when my hair is oily and stringy and lifted in the front. I think the oiliness plus the color contrast is what is making my eye see it more if that makes any sense.

I've tried to explain the issue of my scalp becoming more readily oily forcing it to clump together and more easily show my naturally hard part... but there was never any luck there either. Prior to fully bleaching, I was only doing a half-lift with pigment while adding blue based reds. No one said a word back then because it didn't heavily affect my hair's behavior. Now that they're aware of my fully bleaching, it's as if they're looking for a reason to tell me to stop. I know they're not really a fan of any color beyond a limited range of brown on my head. In my case, my natural color is a level 2 brown, which is almost black. So the lighter colors blend in with my scalp, which is more likely to make my scalp look as if I'm having hair loss. Platinum blonde is almost a seamless color difference from my scalp, so that really doesn't help if my scalp is oily.

My theory is that, because I'm doing fashion colors, they're forced to look more. And when I have that slightly oily, bed head cow lick the next morning... it really looks like the crown of my head experienced some hair loss. Even tying my hair up on top of my crown doesn't help too much. My processed hair likes to keep whatever position it was in for about 5 minutes. Kind of ironic since my unprocessed Asian hair is quite stubborn. :P

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I think I managed to convince the main relative who was most concerned about scalp visibility, after a discussion on Asian hair types. They were concerned with their own hair, and mentioned a similar concern about the crown of their head looking bald. I thought, "Yes! I can explain this better." I showed them some tight, microbraiding from Asian pop stars and let them see how the thick, wirey strands make for a more noticeable hair part, regardless of where the hair is parted. I also showed them my new growth and how it matched theirs and the Asians I offered up.

So, hopefully that's put this issue to rest. And I realized that Show & Tell is much better than trying to explain the "science" behind bleaching.